Jake’s got a couple posts (first, second) about a bill in the Nebraska State Legislature, LB 1141. According to Jake:
From a quick read, what I gather is that his new bill would require students in unaccredited school situations (read: home-school) to be tested on an annual basis at the parents’ expense in order to ensure adequate progress is being made. If not, parents can be required to enroll their students in a public school.
I don’t really have a lot to add, but if this is something you’ve ever heard debates about it’s worth looking at his posts.
My cousin is getting married on Saturday. Oddly, the wedding is at a place dear (I think) to many of your hearts: Snow Mountain Ranch. Who couldn’t love a place they’ve cleaned toilets (Jenny), done massive amounts of manual labor, and formed long-lasting friendships? (Jake, this is where you say something sarcastic =)
So amazingly I don’t have to work on a Saturday for once and I’m hoping to trick my body into letting me leave on a regular schedule this weekend. I got off work at 3AM this morning and actually managed to get almost three and a half hours of sleep before waking up. Time to finish getting ready!
On the Seattle front, I’m in the initial stages of planning a trip out there in October. Not quite moving, but I can take a look around and try to stir up something good.
That’s all for now. Sorry there haven’t been more posts lately, but I’ve been distracted.
Because Jake asked, I spent about five hours tonight turning the quotes back on. They got jacked up when I moved servers many months ago and I hadn’t bothered to fix them yet. Now, however, I’ve installed some things on the server I needed and rewrote some of the code in order to get them back and running. You can see them in the sidebar when you visit the site and I’ve also set up a fancy page where you can view all the quotes.
As before, they automatically refresh to a random quote ever 24 hours unless I step in and pick a specific quote.
Actually, I saw this clip in Japanese class during college before I saw it on Jake’s blog, but I’ll give him credit anyway.
Jake, did I ever tell you that you’re my hero? And everything I would like to be? I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings.
